From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Mon Dec 20 2004 - 13:22:35 PST
I stand corrected. apb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron" <rojoha@adelphia.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>; "m35products"
<m35prod@optonline.net>
Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Pure Silicone Spray as a starting fluid.
> Au contraire, Mr. Bloom....
> The page deals with operation of Cat products in Northern climates and
> above the Artic Circle, where working temps below -60 degrees F are
common.
> The idea behind the sweating statement is that if you are damp inside
> your clothing and you machine croaks on you, your survival time is
measured
> in minutes if your insulated layers are not dry.
> Several good sites dealing with construction problems and operation of
> the DEW and Pinetree lines in the 50's and 60's and the Trans Alaskan
> Pipeline in the 70's -80's can be found by Googling.
> Things like brake fluid isn't at -50 degrees F, and flexible hydraulic
> lines aren't either. At -60 degrees F dozer blades crack and shatter like
> glass when they hit large rocks. But they figured ways around it and 'Got
it
> done'.
>
> BTW... The DEW line construction program had an amphibious component
> that rivaled in complexity and timing anything during WWII. One component
> sailed from the West Coast (Long Beach and Seattle) the other from the
East
> Coast (Philadelphia and Halifax) and a barge lift down the Mackenzie
River
> in NW Canada to the Beaufort Sea. A lot of MV's (M35 gassers, M37s,Weasels
> etc) went up there and never came back.
> A 30 minute movie (propaganda film???) in 2 parts, by Western Electric
> about the DEW Line (aka Project 572) construction can be downloaded at
> http://www.archive.org/.
> Type in DEW line in the search box and pick your preferred format (mpeg
> 2,3,4 or real player). You can also find neat movies about the bad old
days
> of the Cold War here, with lots of MVs blown up during H bomb testing,
Nike
> sites, SAC and even Burt the Turtle!
>
> Regards, Ron
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "m35products" <m35prod@optonline.net>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: 19 December, 2004 21:38
> Subject: Re: [MV] Pure Silicone Spray as a starting fluid.
>
>
> > That has to be the work of a hacker, or a disgruntled writer, who
thought
> > that he could slip it in. (He obviously did) apb
> >
>
>
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